The High Court sentenced a Harare man to death by hanging on 20 March 2019 for killing his lover and her three children.

A farm worker, who killed his cousin because the victim demanded that he pay back the Dh400 he owed, has been sentenced to death.

Ondo State Governor Mr Rotimi Akeredolu will soon sign the death warrant of convicts sentenced to death by different courts in the southwestern state.

The Federal High court in Yenogoa, Bayelsa state, on 22 March 2019 sentenced 42 year old Ogho-Oghene Stephen Akpata to death by hanging for stabbing his wife of just one month, Oyinye Faustina Eze, to death at their home in the Kpansia area of Yenagoa in August 2017.

The Kolkata Sessions Court on 28 March 2019 sentenced a 42-year-old man to death for rape and murder of a two-and-a-half-year-old pavement dweller in Kolkata in 2013.

An Egyptian policeman found guilty of killing a Christian man and his son in a case that outraged the minority Coptic community was sentenced to death on 2 April 2019, judicial sources said.

A man on 5 March 2019 was executed for the rape and murder of an 18-year old girl in a village near the regional capital of Gedo region of the Jubaland Federal State of Somalia.

Saudi Arabia's interior ministry said four people were executed on 1 April 2019 for drug trafficking, including one woman.

The Mass Public Opinion Institute’s study revealed lack of consensus among Zimbabweans on the death penalty issue.

Somalia's al-Shabab Islamic extremist group says it has executed four men accused of spying for the British, Djibouti and Somali intelligence agencies.

Elton John has aligned with George Clooney’s boycott of Brunei-owned luxury hotels after the Asian nation passed strict “Sharia law” that would allow for the stoning death of LGBTQ people.

Pakistan scrapped terrorism trials before special military courts after the tribunals' mandate expired on 1 April 2019, ending a measure that had been in place for over four years to help authorities curb militant attacks, a government minister said.